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Killing of journalist and his son brings to three the number of Mexican reporters slain in a month

Mexican journalist Ángel Castillo Corona, columnist for the digital newspaper Portal, was killed along with his teen-age son, early Sunday morning, July 3, when they were assaulted while driving in the city of Tianguistenco in Mexico State, Portal reported.

Although the main hypothesis for the motive behind the killings is that it was a robbery, the newspaper El Sol de México highlighted the fact that "the brutality that was used to kill the journalist and his son casts doubt on the theory that this was about a robbery." As such, after meeting with journalists from the region, state prosecutor Alfredo Castillo Cervantes said he had not ruled out other possible motives.